Greeting everyone!
Today is my equivalent of Christmas and so today I wish to send all the people who check up on this blog (all like 0 of you) a merry "this time of year" whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanuka or dont celebrate anything at all, I hope you enjoy your winter's break and I hope the new year treats you well. Please find your way to my online Yule card at the address below.
http://www.advent-calendar.eca.ed.ac.uk/
I am day 21 for anyone looking at a later date.
(P.S. James, if you still check this I was going to send you and Alice a direct copy but my email told me that you are now on holiday so happy holidays)
Merry Christmas from ECA
http://www.advent-calendar.eca.ed.ac.uk/
Hello everyone and merry Christmas! Every year in the ECA animation department we make animated christmas cards. Just something a bit festive for the end of the year. This year we have an advent calendar!
I really probably should have put it up here earlier so you could see them all in turn but I didn't. My bad.
Anyway here they are now and you can see all the previous animations and the last like 7 or something. I have booked a day, so don't forget to check on the 21st!
World in A Room - Finished
I have finished my world in a room project. This project is one I am very proud of now I have reached the end I have a film I am very happy with.
Surprisingly I didn't struggle with the CG half of the animation and in actuality I hit very few problems I couldn't solve. It's been interesting learning things I thought I would never wrap my head around as usually I am very hands on and things that involve a lot of technical work are typically beyond me but this I felt wasn't to far gone for me to learn. As a result I am using Maya for my last animation of the semester. (Although that's giving me a lot of headaches) The things I enjoyed about the CG side were getting to focus so much on full body and really think about key frames - Maya does some really strange things if you don't make your keyframes very obvious for it - so working that out was interesting to say the least. I think I really surprised myself with this project as it wasn't at all the type of thing I expected to find myself enjoying or using again and both have happened.
As for the stop motion side I felt for the first time since I started at ECA that I actually might be informed about what I am doing. I had my aperture change on me half way through which was a nightmare as I didn't figure out that was the problem until I had finished animating. sigh. However short of that I knew exactly how to work all the equipment and had enough animation knowledge to animate convincingly. Needless to say I was pleased at the end.
I swear I'm nearly finished and you can watch the film so soon. Now editing; I felt I got a better grip on that too. Following this semesters first project I began to think about my editing right from the get go. As a result my post production editing took far less time to complete than usual and was sped up further by making edits as I made the footage. So by the time it came to the crit I was very happy with my edit and although I made some choices based on feedback at the crit very little needed changing. Just some shots removed that may not have been necessary. So again very pleased there.
And as promised: The film! (it's a link because it's on vimeo)
https://vimeo.com/113612031
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